AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
Wednesday 22 February 2017
A Christian Brothers’ leader has said the Catholic order will disappear from Australia in the coming decades.
Oceania provincial leader Peter Clinch said on Wednesday that the country’s youngest Christian brother was in his 50s and the order no longer sought applicants for its novitiate.
He was asked whether he thought the Christian Brothers would become nothing more than a “brand” on schools run by lay people in 30 to 40 years.
“I don’t think even the brand will be there,” he told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney.
“I think the brand Christian Brothers will be no more.”
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